Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine by Ingrao, Christian - 2013

Polity, 2013 Advance Uncorrected Proof, fully paginated new unread copy; 8vo; xiv + 382pp. First Edition. Soft Cover. New. Advanced Reading Copy (Proof).

Polity. As New in As New dust jacket. 2013. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780745660264 . No defects. No notes or ANY markings. DJ not clipped. ; Ships in a box, USA. ; 8vo ; 399 pages .

Hardback. New. There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers.

Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2013. 399pp. Based on extensive archival research, Christian Ingrao tells the gripping story of children of the Great War, focusing on the networks of fellow activists, academics and friends in which they moved, studying the way in which they envisaged war and the world of enemies which, in their view, threatened them. The mechanisms of their political commitment are revealed, and their roles in Nazism and mass murder. Thanks to this pioneering study, we can now understand how these men came to believe what they did, and how these beliefs became so destructive. The history of Nazism, shows Ingrao, is also a history of beliefs in which a powerful military machine was interwoven with personal experiences, fervour, anguish, utopia and cruelty. Clean. No marks.. 1st Printing. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2013. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. black cloth, dust jacket, xiv, 399 pages, CONTENTS: A 'world of enemies' (I), Constructing networks, Activist intellectuals Being a Nazi, Entering the SD, From struggle to control, Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety, Arguing for war : Nazi rhetoric Violence in action, SS intellectuals confronting defeat, SS intellectuals on trial, Translated from the French,There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers. They chose to join the repressive bodies of the Third Reich, especially the Security Service (SD) and the Nazi Party's elite protection unit, the SS. They theorized and planned the extermination of twenty million individuals of allegedly 'inferior' races.… Read More

Hardback. New. There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers.